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In fact, I had half a mind to talk to Margaret in the morning. She might think we lost our minds but I wanted to warn her to keep the staff away from the balconies for now.
“Come on, let’s find the others,” Lincoln said, practically dragging me out of the unknown area and back to familiar ground.
I hoped they had a far less eventful night than we did.
Of course, I was wrong.
The noise reached us before we even pushed open the doors to the dining room.
Ethan and Ben were talking loudly as we opened the door. One glance around told me that whatever was happening was pure fucking chaos.
The dishes that had been stacked neatly before were now thrown in the middle, some broken as they made a large pile.
“Duck!” Ethan yelled before Lincoln pulled me to the floor. The platter shattered in a ceramic explosion behind me.
This place definitely had our attention now.
ChapterNine
Brea
“We’re looking at record snowfall on the horizon,” the newscaster said with a bit more enthusiasm than was appropriate.
I asked for snow, not a blizzard.
Honestly, if I was anywhere else, I might be excited. But being stranded inside Bellmore Castle sounded like my own personal hell. Especially after last night when it nearly killed Lincoln in front of me.
That, and half the dishes were broken.
Of course, in the morning when we told everything to Margaret and Logan, they both looked completely unfazed, like this was just an everyday wake-up.
Even the balcony thing was apparently no big deal.
I was still flabbergasted after that conversation.
“I need coffee. Join me, red?” Ben asked as he walked over, putting his hands on my chin and pulling me closer so he could brush his lips over mine. “Really, I just want to steal you away for a minute, and I know coffee is always a proper incentive.”
“You had me at coffee. Just let me bundle up first. Apparently, we’re going to need it.”
“Yeah, temps are already dropping.”
“Why don’t you go around and see if anybody needs us to grab anything before the snowstorm hits?”
Lincoln walked into the room at the same moment and waved it off. “You’re good. Margaret already came in and gave us the whole snowstorm spiel. There’s plenty of food, supplies, and extra firewood at all the fireplaces.”
“They even have snacks,” Ethan said as he walked in with a bowl full of popcorn in his hands.
Knowing Logan, it was not just run-of-the-mill popcorn. I held myself back from diving into the snack, knowing that Ben and I were heading to the coffee shop.
We’d polished off all our pastries last time, and I was looking forward to finding another cheese danish.
We took a different route to the coffee shop this time because I wanted to check out the second row of shops.
The moment I spotted an antique shop, I was yanking Ben inside.
“You don’t have to convince me,” he laughed. “Especially not after we found those amazing cameras last time.”
Between his obsession with old photography and my obsession with all things antiques, I knew we would not be leaving here empty-handed. There may be limited space in the van, but I was more than okay with shipping boxes of my treasures home if I had to.
